~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006 SPACE STATION MISSION BRIEFINGS ON NASA TV Date/Time: Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. NASA will hold media briefings on the current and next mission to the International Space Station. The Expedition 14 preflight briefing will be held at 2 p.m. The Expedition 13 recap briefing will occur at 3 p.m. The briefings will air live on NASA TV and focus on the station's ongoing Expedition 13 mission and the upcoming Expedition 14 mission, ...Continue Reading

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006 SPACE STATION MISSION BRIEFINGS ON NASA TV Date/Time: Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2 p.m. and Thursday, Aug. 24, 3 p.m. NASA will hold media briefings on the current and next mission to the International Space Station. The Expedition 14 preflight briefing will be held at 2 p.m. The Expedition 13 recap briefing will occur at 3 p.m. The briefings will air live on NASA TV and focus on the station's ongoing Expedition 13 mission and the upcoming Expe ...Continue Reading

Aug. 22, 2006 Erica Hupp Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1237 Betty Flowers Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. 757-824-1584 MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-135 NASA ANNOUNCES FLORIDA HURRICANE-RESEARCH MEDIA BRIEFING WHAT: Media pre-mission briefing on the NASA, NOAA, Aerosonde Hurricane Boundary Layer Mission. Media may observe a demonstration flight of the Aerosonde unmanned aerial system. This small, remotely piloted aircraft will make observations in hurricanes where the atmosphere meets the sea. It will g ...Continue Reading

Aug. 21, 2006 Allard Beutel Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4769 Bruce Buckingham Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-134 SHUTTLE ATLANTIS EVENTS AND KENNEDY NEWS CENTER HOURS News conferences, events and operating hours for the NASA Kennedy Space Center News Center are set for the Aug. 27 launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-115 mission to the International Space Station. On Thursday, Aug. 24, the six STS-115 crew members are scheduled to arrive at Kennedy at 11:15 a.m. EDT. ...Continue Reading

Aug. 21, 2006 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-133 NASA FLIGHT DIRECTOR AVAILABLE AS SHUTTLE COUNTDOWN STARTS As the launch countdown starts for NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis, one of Mission Control's leaders for the flight is available for live interviews from 7 to 9 a.m. EDT Thursday, Aug. 24. Lead International Space Station Flight Director John McCullough will be available live from the Johnson Space Cen ...Continue Reading

LiveScience.com Monday, August 21, 2006 Increasing Forest Fires Pump Mercury into the Air As wildfires grow in number and strength worldwide, they are unleashing mercury that has polluted wetlands in the north since at least the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Bacteria Added to Gum, Toothpaste and Deodorant Chewing gum, and toothpaste might one day contain the beneficial bacteria found in yogurt as a way to fight tooth decay. Viruses Approved fo ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 18 August 2006. -- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN NORTHERN WASHINGTON Started by lightning in late July 2006, the Tripod Complex Fire continued to burn in northern Washington on August 20 2006. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=13793 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Aug 20 2006 (Posted on Aug 21 2006 9:40AM) -- STORM (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HURRICANE HECTOR Hurricane Hector formed in the eastern Pacific on August 15, 2006. Within ...Continue Reading

Aug. 21, 2006 Erica Hupp Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1237 Steve Roy Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-6535 Megan Watzke Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Mass. 617-496-7998 RELEASE: 06-297 NASA FINDS DIRECT PROOF OF DARK MATTER Dark matter and normal matter have been wrenched apart by the tremendous collision of two large clusters of galaxies. The discovery, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, gives direct evidence for the existence of dark matter. "Th ...Continue Reading

SPACE.com Update for August 21, 2006 A {color: 333366; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold}  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *August 21, 2006*   *TOP STORY* *posted: August 21, 2006 11:22 am EDT* *Orbital Dreams: New Launch Site in Hand for Private Spaceflight Firm*A U.S.-Canadian venture to d ...Continue Reading

Aug. 18, 2006 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4769 James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 STATUS REPORT: SS06-038 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION STATUS REPORT: SS06-038 The astronauts aboard the International Space Station spent much of their week preparing for the arrival of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, set for launch Aug. 27 on the STS-115 mission. Commander Pavel Vinogradov, Flight Engineer and NASA Science Officer Jeff Williams and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Re ...Continue Reading